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Tides Of Eternity Chapter 122: The Abyss That Wears My Name
A Voice That Should Not Exist"So… you survived."Kaiza’s blood turned to ice.He and Soryn stood amid the ruins, bruised, their blades still dripping black ichor from the Nameless Horror’s corpse. The battlefield had fallen silent—too silent. But that voice—his voice—pierced the silence like a knife.He turned toward the sound; his heartbeat crashed in his skull.And there it was.The figure standing atop the crumbling steps, lit in the dying light of the flickering Abyss, was himself.Not the false doppelgänger from earlier.Not some darkened duplicate meant to mock him.This version of Kaiza was so real, more real than he was.An exact mirror except for one detail.Its eyes.Not darkened abysses, not faceless wombs like the Lords or the Hollow King.These were Kaiza’s own eyes, only they brimmed with eternal, insatiable hunger.Not a monster.Not a reflection.The Kaiza the Abyss was hoping for.Soryn took a sharp breath and drew her sword, but she did not strike. Not yet.“That’s
Tides Of Eternity Chapter 123: The One Who Devours
The battlefield was chaos.Kaiza crucifies the Harbinger, holding blades with his arms on fire, abyssal embers flooding through his blood.The silver-eyed executioner neither hesitated nor flinched, and his blade weighed heavily with judgment, each arc decisive, accurate, and unerring.Soryn hung behind them, fighting like a specter; her razor sounded erratic, cutting through the Abyss Hunters.She was outnumbered but not outmatched.And then.The sky broke.A tearing, demonic sound ripped through the air, as if the fabric of reality itself had been torn apart.Kaiza had barely time to think before something fell from above.Not from the heavens.From something beyond them.The Abyss itself.The Harbinger froze, his silver eyes lifting to the disturbance. Abyss Hunters stilled, sigil blades lit but moving awkwardly, warily.Even Soryn hesitated, her golden eyes darting over to the blackness now draping over the battlefield like ink.Then it stepped through.And the world tilted.It wa
Tides Of Eternity Chapter 124: The Price of Power
The battlefield was dying.The dirt below them had decayed into something alien; the sky above was not a sky anymore.Shadows throbbed, warping like a living creature, devouring the fading echoes of whatever had been real.Kaiza’s chest rose and fell, his sword iron in his hands.He had lost his own Abyssal reflection, but a terribleness had been born in its place.An entity that doesn't even belong in existence.One that predated even the Abyss.It had come for him."You should not be."The monster’s many voices curled around his mind like a sickness slithering into his skull. Its shape was no longer fixed, either now an emaciated, skyscraper creature or now a wriggling clump of black tentacles.It was not just a monster.It was a judge.Kaiza balled his fists, forcing his body into motion, forcing his thoughts to clear. He knew that voice. Not from his past but from something deeper.Something buried.Soryn affixed himself at his side, blade out, steady breath, golden eyes focused o
Tides Of Eternity Chapter 125: A Sudden Arrival
And then Kaiza barely had a second to breathe before the Harbinger moved. One second ago, he was standing all the way across the ruin-pocked battlefield. Now—his blade was swinging for Kaiza’s throat. Kaiza moved on reflex; his sword rose just in time to meet the sigil-etched steel. The ground shook underneath them as an explosion tore through the quaking air, their red-trimmed armaments locked together.The Harbinger’s silver eyes blazed, “You are not human anymore.” Kaiza gritted his teeth and pushed back. “I was never just human.”The Harbinger’s blade and the motion of his movements were truly impossible.Too fast, even for Kaiza’s abyss-hastened senses. Before Kaiza could adjust, the Harbinger took a step and came back down, his sword igniting deep into Kaiza’s shoulder.Fire erupted, but not fire like normal fire.But it was burning." Something was attempting to peel the Abyss out of him.Kaiza staggered back but clutched his sword.His wound-up didn’t fix straight away.The Har
Tides Of Eternity Chapter 126: The Throne and the Void
The Choice That Shouldn’t Have to Be MadeKaiza stared at himself.The thing that wore his face was seated on the throne of the Abyss as though he had always belonged there.No, as if he’d always belonged there.The other Kaiza, the Throne-Kaiza, leaned forward, cold abyssal flames of mocking amusement dancing in his luminous eyes. His voice was suave, knowing."You hesitate."Kaiza’s breath was heavy, his body still quaking from the pressure of the Abyss.His feet were anchored to the swirling void beneath him, a bridge too far, and the Abyss was all but waiting for him to take a step forward.To take his rightful place.Because this was what the Abyss desired.Not just to claim him.To make him its ruler.But something was wrong.There was something that had twisted deep in his gut.He was no longer merely battling the Abyss.He was fighting himself.And for the first time, Kaiza wasn’t sure he would be strong enough to win.The Abyss Offers EverythingThe Throne-Kaiza cocked its he
Tides Of Eternity Chapter 130: The Man Who Should Not Exist
Kaiza rose shakily to his feet, heaving breaths, his mind splintering under the weight of what was standing before him.The figure, the part of him that had never been cursed, the brother he would have known on the other side of his death, watched him wordlessly, the empty space where a face should be shifting, flickering, like he was still settling into this world."You don’t belong here."The words did not come from the figure’s mouth.They had originated from Kaiza’s own mind.Images raced through his mind of this other life, the one that should have been his.A simple home. A quiet life. A family.And the epiphany struck him like a knife in the chest.This was the Kaiza he never settled into being.The man had sacrificed him the instant he had eaten of the flesh of the mermaid.And now, the Abyss had allowed that man to enter this world.Kaiza’s pulse hammered.Because this was more than a battle.It was a replacement.If he failed, he wouldn’t merely die.He wouldn’t just be remo
Tides Of Eternity Chapter 131: The Price of Returning
The heir was wrong.Not heavy, not thick, but not just heavy, not just thick. Wrong.Kaiza could feel it pressing against his skin, crawling into his lungs, wrapping around his bones like it was something alive. The battle was lost; he had won. He had turned down the shadow, the false self that the Abyss had attempted to sub in for him.But something had returned with him.Soryn noticed it first.Her golden eyes turned upward, her breathing hastening."Kaiza," she murmured. "Look at the sky."Kaiza looked up.And his stomach dropped.The sky was broken.Not in crevices, not like broken glass.But curling in on itself, contorting as if it were trying to swallow itself.The stars had been torn asunder, leaving only an endless, infinite expanse of hunger.And then.A sound.Not thunder.Not wind.But breathing.Slow. Deep. Ancient.Kaiza’s veins turned to ice.Because he already knew what that sound was.Something else had come back with him.It was something that was never meant to esca
Tides Of Eternity Chapter 132: The Abyss Takes Its Due
Kaiza had seen monsters.He had fought the Hollow King. He had battled the Forgotten Lords. He had experienced visions that tore the illusion of reality.But this?This was worse.The First Hunger now loomed before him, a beast so ancient and cracked that it had forgotten all its own particulars but one final urge.To devour.The First Hunger itself, it appeared, had been rejected by reality, as the temple teetered and quaked and cracks yawned across the sky.Kaiza’s breathing was sharp and quick, his mind still revolving with shock from the visions the blacksmith at the crux had thrust into him. The sigil he’d touched still burned him as it had etched into his skin, and his chest was hot with his memories of being so close to him.But none of that mattered.Not right now.That was because Soryn was kneeling on the ground, trembling, her golden eyes aglow with something built out of the mortal plane, something dark.The Abyss had marked her.And Kaiza did not know whether he could bri
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Chapter 149: The End of the Rewrite
The stars had come back.But peace, Kaiza understood, was not always quiet. It was a tension—the quiet after a storm, the stillness after a scream, full of everything left unspoken.He stood at the boundary of memory.Though his body had been erased from the world, his mind was still anchored, resonating like an old melody in the Archive Between Worlds, the place where stories were never spoken, where truths too hazardous to be remembered were kept.And in its changing halls of golden filaments and ash-hued stone, Kaiza roamed. Not lost. Not captive. But seeking.For the past had not yet released him.Mount Umbra. Years before the end.The Shadowborne children were taught to never flinch.Kaiza recalled the sting of snow searing across his naked toes at initiation. A knife in his fist. A mask upon his eyes. His father's voice, ice as black stone:"Loyalty is not love. It is law."They grew up in silence, taught to dominate a dozen kills before their thirteenth name-day. Feelings were v
Chapter 148:The War of Existence
The sky was torn apart.Not like an explosion.Not like thunder.But like the very fabric of sound itself, it ripped asunder.Kaiza didn't even have the moment to blink before the entity shifted.Not with power.Not with speed.But with absolute, mindless inevitability.It didn't attack in the sense that an enemy would.It redefined the battlefield.In one instantKaiza was standing on solid earth.He was tumbling into a chasm of shattered timelines, each one splintering away like delicate glass.His golden flames flickered, fighting against the force pulling him down.He froze.Not because he caught himself.Not because he landed.Because the entity demanded it.Kaiza growled."You think you can control me?"The entity's voice surrounded him."I already do."And thenThe world crumbled.Kaiza balled his fists as the rules of reality warped around him.The entity's golden-black fire engulfed everything.Shredding the battlefield, reforming it in real-time.The sky turned into an ocean
Chapter 147: The Collapse of Reality
The sky tore apart.Not like lightning.Not like a storm.Like glass breaking.The Hollow City shattered, shattering into a thousand reflective shards, each one revealing a different possibility.Some revealed Kaiza triumphant, golden flames in his grasp, the entity dissolving to dust.Others revealed Kaiza was gone, nothing but a memory of what had been.But the worst onesThe ones that made his chest constrictRevealed the world lost.Not destroyed.Never having been at all.The thing moved first.One moment, it stood before him.Next, it was all around him.A dozen forms of itself blurred in and out of existence, attacking from various directions simultaneously.Each sword is pointing for Kaiza's heart.But Kaiza didn't even blink.He didn't need to react.Because nowHe knew the game."You don't get to decide anymore."Kaiza reached out with his will, his mind, his very soul.And reality listened.In an instantEvery version of the entity vanished.Not because Kaiza dodged.Not bec
Chapter 146: The War of Unmaking
The world ended.Not in flames.Not in ruin.In nothingness.The streets of the Hollow City disappeared.The sky overhead ceased to exist.The air itself wavering, as if a memory attempting to remember its own presence.Kaiza alone in the center of it all a solitary figure against an adversary that was not meant to exist.His golden eyes ablaze.But for the first time everHe wasn't certain if he existed anymore.The figure in front of him his distorted reflection grinned."You're beginning to comprehend, aren't you?"Kaiza clutched his sword tighter."I comprehend that you speak too damn much."The figure chuckled."Like a man who doesn't know he's already lost."And thenIt moved.Kaiza had barely enough time to respond.The instant the entity charged, the very fabric of reality unraveled.Not with force.Not with power.With certainty.Wherever the entity stepped, the world no longer was.The Hollow City disappeared in patches, chunks of buildings, strips of sky—all vanishing in a
Chapter 145: A King Without a Throne
For the first time in five centuries, the Hollow City was silent.No screaming.No war.No whispering darkness hiding in the cracks of reality.Kaiza stood in the middle of it all free.The Abyss was gone.Not locked away.Not hiding in the shadows.Gone.He had done the impossible.He had rejected it.Not by fighting it.Not by dominating it.But by letting go.And yet something did not feel right.Kaiza let out a sharp breath, rolling his shoulders.His body felt lighter.As if he had lost something he had carried around for so long that he didn't even know what it felt like to not have it.The Abyss had been integrated into his very being.And now, without it…Who was he?Kaiza tightened his fists."Is this what freedom is meant to feel like?"Because it didn't feel good.It felt empty.Like he had been opened up and something had been torn out.Something that, terrible as it was, had at least been a part of him.Kaiza's golden eyes blazed, but there was no abyssal fire burning in
Chapter 144: When Titans Collide
A howl of unleashed darkness erupted from under the Hollow City.The earth cleaved open, a torn edge slashing through stone, spewing out coils of abyssal flame into the air.And out of that tear something stirs.Something immense.Something ancient.Kaiza stood upon the ruined battlefield, his gold eyes fixed on the churning whirlpool of darkness that had burst forth from his own blow.He'd done it.He'd awakened the Abyss.And now he had to make it through."Every last one of you, move!" Kaiza bellowed.But it was already too late.A brutal shockwave erupted outward, shattering the Hollow City and leveling buildings to rubble.The air itself cracked, reality fighting to maintain its shape as the Abyss awakened from its deep sleep.The sky contorted, folding in upon itself, and Kaiza could sense it.The Abyss was hungry.And it had waited too long.The First Hunger awakened.The impossibly huge hand, black and smeared with shifting constellations of void, faltered for the first time.
Chapter 145: The Choice That Ends a Kingdom
Kaiza's breathing came sharp and jagged.His fingers were constricted around the wrist of his other self, the King of the Hollow City.The battle's weight still resonated in his bones, his muscles crying out from the fight, which had transcended time itself.And yet he did not attack.The king sneered, golden eyes flashing with dark pleasure."What's wrong?""This is what you wanted, isn't it?"Kaiza's hold grew tighter.He could finish it now.A single strike. A single cut.Erase this alternate version of himself.Reclaim the Hollow City as his own.But the longer he stared into his own twisted reflection, the clearer it became.This wasn’t just about a throne.This was about who he would become."Damn it."His golden eyes flashed."I’m not you."And that was the moment he made his choice.A King Must FallKaiza let go.The king swayed a little, his sneer failing for the first time."What?"Kaiza took a step back, sheathing his sword."I don't need to kill you to win."The throne room
Chapter 144: The War of Kings
Kaiza stumbled forward, his breathing labored, his heart pounding in his ears.The Hollow City lay before him, but it was not the same Hollow City he remembered.It was unmarred by war.The towers rose high, spires reaching into a moonlit sky that should not be.The streets were spotless, thronged with moving people walking, speaking, and living.For an instant, Kaiza couldn't catch his breath.This was impossible.It had never been true.It had never been anything more than a dream."And yet here I am."A weight, heavy as lead, dropped into his chest.He had rewritten destiny.The Abyss had never swallowed this city.The Hunters had never been forgotten.And he had never turned into a monster.Kaiza let out a harsh breath, raking a hand through his dark, sweat-matted hair."So what the hell do we do now?"The Harbinger's Warning"Kaiza."The voice was low, even.He turned to glance at the Harbinger, who stood a few steps behind him, silver eyes acute, expressionless.He hadn't budged
Chapter 143: A War Against the Unwritten
The darkness engulfed Kaiza entirely.In one instant, he stood before his previous self, the Hollow City intact, reality itself refusing to believe that history had been altered.The next.He was plummeting.Not bodily.Not through air, or chronology, or even the Abyss.But through something deeper.Something older.Something that should not exist.Something that had waited.And at its center something watched.Kaiza's body struck solid earth, but it felt nothing like the real world.The sky, or what passed for a sky, was a chasm of writhing shapes and wisps.The air tasted too thick, weighing upon him like a thousand invisible fingers.He pushed himself up, his golden eyes furrowing as he turned.And then.He saw it.The figure.It stood where his former self had once stood, regarding him with a look that belonged to no living thing.Kaiza had battled gods.He had fought the Abyss.He had witnessed things without a name.But this.This thing was wrong.Not as the Abyss was.Not as the
